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(L-R): Prof. John Cryan, Vice President Research and Innovation at UCC; Sean O' Driscoll, Chair of UCC's Governing Authority; Prof. John O' Halloran, President of UCC; Rachel O' Leary, Director of Business Engagement at UCC and Prof. Barry O' Sullivan, Director of UCC Futures in AI and Data Analytics. Image credit: Provision

“AI optimism has turned into an over-hyping of the technology that is misplaced”

"AI optimism has turned into an over-hyping of the technology that is misplaced” warns Professor Barry O’ Sullivan, Director of UCC Futures in AI and Data Analytics. His remarks were delivered on Tuesday evening at University College Cork's (UCC) second annual Business Engagement event, which brought together just under 300 attendees from across Ireland’s business community.

Public Lecture & In Conversation: Fueling Resilience - Energising the Brain in Stressful Times

University College Cork invites you to attend a public lecture on “Fueling Resilience – Energising the Brain in Stressful Times”, featuring world-leading neuroscientist and UCC Honorary Doctorate awardee, Professor Carmen Sandi from EPFL, Switzerland.

Artist Tom Climent, Professor Maria McNamara, Professor of Palaeontology at University College Cork, artist Angela Gilmour and Professor Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman Gallery at the Glucksman Gallery in UCC, which is set to host The Domain of the Dinosaurs. A new exhibition which will run from Sunday November 16 until April 12 2026, The Domain of the Dinosaurs will feature over 250 real fossil specimens from land, sea and air, new artworks by Irish artists inspired by the collection, and eight-metre-long skeletons of the only dinosaurs known to have existed on the island of Ireland. Photograph: Clare Keogh

New UCC exhibition showcases life-sized Irish dinosaurs

Huge eight-metre-long skeletons of the only dinosaurs known to have existed on the island of Ireland are set to go on display to the public for the very first time, in a spectacular new exhibition of Irish fossils.

Cobh Harbour to Host Ireland’s First Living Sea Wall

University College Cork (UCC), through the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences and the UCC Sustainability Institute, has announced the installation of the Living Seawalls in Cork by Marine Ecologist Dr Louise Firth, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability.

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